I am an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego, where I specialize in American political institutions.

My research asks how institutions shape the information that reaches policymakers: which witnesses congressional committees invite, how interest groups gain and lose access, and how partisan and institutional pressures shape what legislators come to know and disseminate. Some of this work appears in my book Hearings on the Hill: The Politics of Informing Congress (with Ju Yeon Park and Hye Young You), published by Cambridge University Press, which develops this argument across six decades of committee testimony.

A second strand of my work examines the interbranch relationship between Congress and the bureaucracy: how congressional oversight functions, and how expertise and capacity within the bureaucracy or legislature shape what each branch can accomplish.

Both strands of my research use large-scale data on congressional and administrative activity, and share an interest with where governing knowledge comes from and who controls it.

My research has appeared in political science journals such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Quarterly Journal of Political Science, among others. I serve as Co-Editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly, where I handle American Politics manuscripts. I received my Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University in 2018.

My CV is available here.